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Mel) B. ANDREWS.

TRUNK.

No. 332,034. Patented De0.;8, 1885.

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UNTTEE STATEs PATENT @EETQEQ EMERY ANDREWS, OF KENNEBUNK, MAINE, ASSlGNOB TO THE LEATHEROID MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 332,034, dated December 8, 1885. Application filed April 16, 1885. Serial No. 162,424. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: Of the drawings, Figure 1 represents a front Be it known that I, EMERY ANDREWS, of 1 elevation of a trunk embodying my invention. Kennebunk, in the county of York and State Fig. 2 represents a section through one of the of Maine, have invented a new and. useful corners of said trunk and a portion of its ad- 55 5 Improvement in Trunks, of which the followjacent sides, drawn to a slightly-enlarged scale; ing, taken in connection with the accompanyand Figs. 8 and 4 represent sections similar to ing drawings, is a specification. l Fig. 2, showing different methods of making My present invention relates to the manuup the corners. facture of trunks from material composed of In the drawings, A is the body of thetrunk, 1o aseries oflayers of chemically-treated paper- 1 provided with the top or cover B, all consuch, for instance, as is known under the term strncted in the manner described in my beforeleatheroid and described in Letters Patent mentioned Letters Patent, except as will be No. 198,382, granted to T. and T. S. Hanna hereinafter described. on the 18th day of December, A. D. 187 7 and In constructing trunks in accordance with 6 1 is an improvement upon the invention demy present invention, I take sheets of leathseribed and claimed in Letters Patent No. eroid or other heavy board composed of a 312,946, for improvements in trunks, granted series of layers of chemically-treated paper to The Leatheroid llianufacturing Company, firmly compacted and united, and out thereas my assignee, on the 24th day of February, from four pieces, a a, each of which is of about 0 A. D. 1885. the height that the desired trunk is to have, Trunks which were constructed after the and of a length somewhat greater than the manner described in said Letters Patent No. length of said trunk, and four other pieces, 312,946 have been put into use in many kinds 1) b, of the same width, and of a length someof rough serviceas, for instance, the express what greater than the width of said trunk. 5 2 businessand it has been discovered that I next take thin sheets of metal-for instance, while the tensile strength of said trunks is all steel-and cut therefrom two sheets, 0 c, corthat can be desired, yet the transverse strength responding in width to the sheets of leatheroid,

is such that when one of the sides of the trunk and of a length equal to the length of the has given to it a sudden blow by the corner of trunk, and two other sheets, (1 d, of the same 80 a heavy weight, as is quite apt to be the case width and of a length equal to the width of in such service, then said side is apt to be the trunk. Two of the sheets a a and one punctured thereby and broken in, while the of the sheets 0 c are then taken and firmly seshape of the trunk remains intact. cured together by cement or other suitable ad- To obviate this difficulty and increase the hesive material, in such a manner that the 8 5 I transverse strength of the sides of the trunk, ends of the sheets a a will project a greater or I so as to render them better adapted to resist less distance beyond the ends of the sheet 0. P the sudden and heavy blows to which they are In order to prevent the cement giving away liable to be subjected, is the object of my presfrom excessive heat or from rough usage of the ent invention; and it consists in a trunk the trunk, I take the sheets thus cemented to- 0' 4O sides of which are formed of laminated plates, gether and additionally secure them by rivets each composed of a thin sheet of metal, pret ff, some three or four inches apart over the erably steel, and one or more sheets of leathentire surface. This method of securing the eroid or other chemically-treated paper, firmly sheets together to form a plate to be used as secured together by rivets or by cement and one side of the trunk prevents any warping 5 rivets, said laminated plates being secured toor shrinking of the sides, while at the same gether, to form the corners of the trunk, subtime the heads of said rivets protect the surstantially as described in the abovecited Patface of the said trunk. The other vertical ent No. 312,946,all of which will readily be unsides may be made up in the same manner derstood by reference to the description of the from the remaining sheets of leatheroid a a b I ;O 5o drawings, and to the claims to be hereinafter b and the sheets of metal 0 d d, and then given. flanges g g are formed upon each end of each of said sides by bending leatheroid sheets a a b b which yond the metal sheet 0 d at right main portion, and the sides are together in the project be angles to the fully Letters Patent. The top and bottom sides are formed in a similar manner to the vertical sides, and are then secured to said vertical sides in" the same manner as has been described in my before-mentioned Letters Patent. The shell at right angles to the main body of the side, to help form the corner. Still another form is shown in'Fig. 4. in which but one sheet of leatheroid, a or b, is used in connection with the metal sheetcordto make the laminated plate of which the sides of the trunk are formed,- but when only one sheet of leatheroid is used its thickness is much greater than the thickness of those sheets where two or more are used to form a laminated plate.

It is obvious that a great variety of corners will suggest themselves; but for general rough those portions of the service the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 has I been found to be the best, combinmg, as it does, the lightness of a leatheroid trunk with the strength of a steel one.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. A trunk the sides of 2. A trunk the sides of of laminated plates made of metal and one or more or other similar material,

I ping an adjacent side, and

riveting or cementing and riveting.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 14th day of April, A. D. 1885.

EMERY ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

WALTER E. LOMBARD, FRANK .E. BRAY. 

